Is attendance at the Gokhale Method Annual Meeting required, and under what conditions?
Gokhale_Method Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
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- 7.2. Continuing Training. You must attend such additional courses, seminars and other training programs as we may reasonably require from time to time, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual, in order to maintain your approval to teach the Approved Formats for which you have been approved. Such continuing training may include, but is not limited to, attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in such Teacher Webinars as may be scheduled by us, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active. Failure to attend and participate in such continuing training programs may result in suspension of your right to teach the Gokhale System until you have completed our required continuing training and you have been re-approved. If your right to teach has been suspended, and you nonetheless offer to teach, we may terminate this Agreement immediately upon notice to you. As part of your continuing approval we may request that you submit at reasonable intervals, and you agree to submit to us within such reasonable time as we specify, audiotapes or videotapes of you teaching, and which will be detailed in the then current Teachers' Manual. We may submit such recordings to peer review by other Gokhale Method teachers, and you hereby grant us your consent for such submission.
- 7.3. Training Fee and Expenses. All training programs required by this Agreement shall be at such times and places as may be designated by us.
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD page 34)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Gokhale Method's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees must attend continuing training programs to maintain their approval to teach the Gokhale System. These programs may include attendance at the Annual Meeting, participation in Teacher Webinars, peer review of teacher trainees, and involvement in Gokhale® Active.
Attendance at the Annual Meeting is not explicitly mandated every year, but it is listed as a potential component of the required continuing training. The specific requirements for continuing training, including whether the Annual Meeting is required in a given year, will be detailed in the then-current Teachers' Manual.
Failure to attend and participate in the required continuing training programs can result in the suspension of a franchisee's right to teach the Gokhale System until the training is completed and re-approval is granted. Teaching while suspended can lead to immediate termination of the Franchise Agreement. Franchisees are also required to attend any and all required continuing training as defined in section 7.2 of the agreement.